computer wont boot into windows

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so this is the second time ive had this problem. first the problem.

i would be windows browsing the web with firefox and the window would freeze. i could move the window around and minimize the window but couldnt maximize the window or ctr+alt+delete. so i would restart it and could play TF2 for about 2 hours. quit the game and load up firefox and after 5 mins it would freeze again. after a while TF2 would also freeze. then it wouldnt even load up windows. it would get to the windows load screen with load bar and just sit there. sometimes it get past that and load the cursor but nothing else. so, i format my drive and installed a fresh copy of xp and after an hour of using it it would freeze.

i went out and bought a new hdd and installed everything. it worked. everything seemed and worked fine for a month till last week when the problem happened again. i hope its not the hdd. so this time i loaded up recovery console and restored the registry from 3 days back from when the problem started happening. didnt work. chkdsk comes back clean. so, i didnt format and just installed xp again, got into windows and started installing drivers and it froze once more. now it just sits at the windows loading screen again. loading.

what is the cause of this? solutions?
 
maybe im missing something but i cant get it to boot. i set it to boot from cd but it keeps going to to windows and trying to load to windows. it actually get to the windows desktop but still freezes and can do anything in it. i can still move the cursor around but its just that wonderful hourglass.
 
Are you sure you burned the image file onto the CD? Use software like imgburn or Infrarecorder.
That is, you didn't make a data CD, right?
 
yeah thats my problem. im typing from my roommates mac and that isnt helping at all. i wont be another pc till tomorrow so ill try the memtest tomorrow. i tried daemon tools and just looked at that imgburn and neither seem to run on mac.

so youre thinking it might be the memory?
 
ok so i got memtest to run and it came back with no errors. anything else i can try and test or run?

everything i seem to check or test it all comes back clean. so, its starting to get frustrating with it being a new hdd and all. i can always go out and get some new memory but, if it isnt the memory and turns out to be the hdd again. what would cause it to happen what seems to be out of the blue, random.
 
im taking out my sticks and testing each one and will be trying new sockets when i put then in. hopefully ill get some results that way.
 
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